Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d77c9686c92fbe4f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

19.0 KB
MD5: eeb1a9e520fd6004123550b593ec223d SHA-1: 9f3256b0fffd4c7ce6ea92aeb64b157bc0c9951a SHA-256: d77c9686c92fbe4f45f62c413c6a994e185a00d9609aba17d7447afb3c226f2f
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier with a high probability of being malicious and was also detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file indicates an attempt to deliver a secondary exploit or malware. The embedded URLs, while not directly malicious, are part of the PDF's structure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78
  • Embedded script payload in PDF stream medium PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD
    PDF stream bytes contain an HTML/XFA <script> tag without accompanying Windows shell-execution primitives — common in accessible XFA forms but worth surfacing for analyst review.
  • Embedded file low PDF_EMBEDDED
    PDF embeds a file attachment — could carry an executable or another weaponised document as a nested payload
  • XFA form low PDF_XFA
    PDF uses XML Forms Architecture — can contain script logic
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://ns.adobe.com/xdp/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/1.0/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0008.bin
480d0c82b8e33a79da7d025bec9191be2bea74b9279b3d0ec2977168d06090d0
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 18692 bytes